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Jocelyn Green Books in Order

Browse Jocelyn Green books in order, from Civil War fiction to 1920s mysteries, with short summaries, series guides, and tips on where to start.

Last updated: July 3, 2026

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18 books

Faith Deployed

by Jocelyn Green

2008

A devotional collection for military wives who feel stretched thin, unseen, or alone. Green and fellow contributors address the everyday pressures of military life with practical, faith-rooted encouragement.

Faith Deployed...Again

by Jocelyn Green

2011

This follow-up devotional gathers wisdom from more than twenty-five Christian military wives. It speaks to deployment, reunion, post-deployment strain, and the need for hope that lasts longer than a hard season.

Wedded to War

by Jocelyn Green

2012

Charlotte Waverly leaves wealth and expectation behind to become one of the Union's first female nurses. Hospital corruption, family pressure, and a painful choice between love and duty test her from the first brutal months of the Civil War.

The 5 Love Languages Military Edition

by Jocelyn Green

2013

Green and Gary Chapman adapt the familiar love-languages framework for military marriage. With stories from service families and advice for separation, deployment, and reunion, it aims to help couples stay connected under unusual strain.

Widow of Gettysburg

by Jocelyn Green

2013

After battle engulfs Gettysburg, Liberty Holloway's farm is seized as a Confederate field hospital. As Bella Jamison confronts the past and Liberty fights through grief and suspicion, both women must decide what mercy and courage really demand.

Yankee in Atlanta

by Jocelyn Green

2014

Wounded soldier Caitlin McKae hides her true Northern identity in wartime Atlanta and becomes governess to a Confederate soldier's daughter. As hunger, refugees, and Sherman's advance close in, loyalty and survival grow harder to separate.

Spy of Richmond

by Jocelyn Green

2015

Union loyalist Sophie Kent builds a spy network inside the Confederate capital while Bella Jamison risks everything to reach her imprisoned husband. In Richmond, one wrong move can mean prison, exposure, or the loss of everyone they are trying to save.

Free to Lean

by Jocelyn Green

2017

Green argues that a perfectly balanced life is a myth. Drawing on her own experience, she offers a calmer way to think about priorities, seasons, and faith for women weary of trying to do everything equally well.

The Mark of the King

by Jocelyn Green

2017

Branded and exiled for a crime she did not commit, midwife Julianne Chevalier is sent to 1720s Louisiana and forced into marriage. In a brutal new colony, she searches for her brother and a way past the mark that defines her.

A Refuge Assured

by Jocelyn Green

2018

Fleeing revolutionary France, lacemaker Vivienne Rivard reaches Philadelphia with a boy others believe may be the lost Dauphin. In Pennsylvania's French settlement of Asylum, politics, danger, and a growing bond with Liam Delaney test her fragile hope for peace.

Between Two Shores

by Jocelyn Green

2019

In 1759 Montreal, Catherine Duval tries to stay neutral between the French and the British. But when her British former fiance becomes a prisoner, helping him escape could drag her, and everyone she loves, straight into war.

Veiled in Smoke

by Jocelyn Green

2020

When the Great Fire of Chicago destroys the Townsend sisters' bookshop, Meg's family is left scattered and desperate. Then a family friend is murdered and their traumatized father is blamed, forcing Meg to fight for both survival and justice.

Shadows of the White City

by Jocelyn Green

2021

At the 1893 World's Fair, Sylvie Townsend's adopted daughter Rose disappears, and the authorities offer little help. With musician Kristof Bartok beside her, Sylvie searches Chicago's immigrant neighborhoods and faces hard questions about family, control, and belonging.

Drawn by the Current

by Jocelyn Green

2022

After surviving the Eastland disaster, Olive Pierce returns to her job at a Chicago insurance agency and starts digging into the chaos left behind. Grief, sabotage, and long-buried secrets turn her search for truth into a dangerous one.

A River Between Us

by Jocelyn Green

2023

When Sherman destroys Cora Mae Stewart's Georgia mill and sends her north as a prisoner, she clings to one duty, keeping a little girl safe. Union Sergeant Ethan Howard, the man who arrested her, may be her only road home.

The Metropolitan Affair

by Jocelyn Green

2023

Assistant curator Lauren Westlake is drawn into a 1920s New York art-fraud case when a forger starts targeting wealthy collectors. Teaming up with detective Joe Caravello means sorting through crime, family wounds, and a city obsessed with ancient Egypt.

The Hudson Collection

by Jocelyn Green

2024

Elsa Reisner, an ornithologist at the American Museum of Natural History, is sent to catalog a dead patron's estate and finds herself caught in a treasure hunt. Hidden motives, fragile health, and unexpected loyalties raise the stakes at every turn.

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The Manhattan Confessions

by Jocelyn Green

2026

Librarian Ivy Malone is entrusted with a wealthy woman's explosive secret just as her cousin is detained at Ellis Island. Untangling crime, family ties, and dangerous helpers pulls Ivy into one of Manhattan's darker corners.

Where should I start?

If you want Chicago history with mystery: Veiled in SmokeShadows of the White CityDrawn by the Current
If you want Jazz Age New York: The Metropolitan AffairThe Hudson CollectionThe Manhattan Confessions
If you want earlier American history: The Mark of the KingA Refuge AssuredBetween Two Shores
If you want Civil War stories with recurring threads: Wedded to WarWidow of GettysburgYankee in AtlantaSpy of Richmond
If you want nonfiction for military life: Faith DeployedFaith Deployed...AgainThe 5 Love Languages Military Edition

Author bio

Jocelyn Green writes historical fiction with one foot in the archive and the other in ordinary life. Her novels are often set in moments of upheaval, but the people at their center are not larger-than-life heroes. They are nurses, curators, widows, librarians, mothers, and women trying to make one decent choice after another when history turns rough.

That home-front perspective never left her.

Green graduated from Taylor University in Upland, Indiana, with a B.A. in English, concentration in writing. Before many readers found her through fiction, she was writing nonfiction shaped by military life. As a former military wife, she wrote Faith Deployed and Faith Deployed...Again, devotional books for military wives, and later coauthored The 5 Love Languages Military Edition with Gary Chapman. Those books came out of a practical need as much as a literary one. They were meant to meet readers in the middle of stress, separation, and long seasons of uncertainty.

When Green turned to novels, she did not leave those concerns behind. She simply moved them into history. Her fiction keeps returning to women under pressure, especially women whose work or courage has been easy to overlook. Wedded to War follows one of the first female nurses of the Civil War. The Mark of the King heads to early French Louisiana. A Refuge Assured and Between Two Shores reach further into North American history, but they keep the same interest in displacement, duty, and survival.

She likes big history, but she writes it at human scale.

That is part of the appeal of later books like Veiled in Smoke, Shadows of the White City, and Drawn by the Current, her Chicago novels built around the Great Fire, the World's Fair, and the Eastland disaster. The same is true of her On Central Park series, which begins with The Metropolitan Affair and continues through The Hudson Collection and The Manhattan Confessions. Even when the settings are glamorous, museums, mansions, libraries, Jazz Age Manhattan, Green stays interested in work, grief, family strain, moral pressure, and the small secrets that can change a life.

Readers who stick with her tend to like that blend. The history is carefully built, but it never feels like homework. There is often mystery in the plot, romance in the background or foreground, and a steady concern with faith and endurance. Green's heroines are rarely reckless for the sake of drama. They pay attention. They keep going. They do the next hard thing.

The awards followed. The Mark of the King and Drawn by the Current both won Christy Awards, and her books have also been honored by the Military Writers Society of America and the Advanced Writers & Speakers Association. Those facts tell part of the story, but maybe not the most useful part. A better guide is the range of her work. She can move from Civil War hospitals to 1920s museum halls and still sound like herself.

Off the page, Green shares a few details that make her easy to picture. She loves Mexican food, Broadway musicals, pie, the color red, and reading with a cup of tea. She lives in Cedar Falls, Iowa, with her husband Rob and their two children.

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